gang truce

  • Weekly InSight: El Salvador’s Gang Truce on Trial

    In our August 17 Facebook Live session, Senior Investigator Héctor Silva Ávalos and Senior Editor Mike LaSusa spoke about a trial related to El Salvador‘s controversial gang truce that has spotlighted close ties between gangs and politics in the Central American country… Read this piece in its entirety at InSight Crime. You can watch the

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  • Report Describes Shifting Patterns of Violence in El Salvador

    A new report describes recent shifts in the characteristics of violence in El Salvador, and it offers recommendations for how to deal with these developments, focusing particularly on the need to tailor violence reduction and prevention strategies to specific local conditions… Read this piece in its entirety at InSight Crime.

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  • El Salvador Disappearances Down From Post-Gang Truce Peak

    Newly reported statistics from El Salvador‘s National Civil Police indicate that disappearances have declined from a peak reached in 2014 after the dissolution of a controversial gang truce, raising questions about the relationship between the truce and the rate of disappearances… Read this piece in its entirety at InSight Crime.

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Portrait illustration of Mike LaSusa

Mike LaSusa